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SpaceX wants to make Starbase a new Texas city. Here’s how it could happen
SpaceX wants to make Starbase a new Texas city. Here’s how it could happen

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — In the decade since SpaceX arrived on the Texas coast, billionaire Elon Musk’s company has created thousands of jobs near the Mexico border, launched rockets and [...]

US jury finds Vegas police fabricated evidence in 2001 killing, awards $34M to exonerated woman
US jury finds Vegas police fabricated evidence in 2001 killing, awards $34M to exonerated woman

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal jury in Nevada has awarded more than $34 million to a woman who was arrested at age 18, wrongly convicted twice, and served nearly [...]

Mysterious googly eyes go viral after appearing on public art in Oregon
Mysterious googly eyes go viral after appearing on public art in Oregon

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Googly eyes have been appearing on sculptures around the central Oregon city of Bend, delighting many residents and sparking a viral sensation covered widely by news [...]

Unique among ‘Person of the Year’ designees, Donald Trump gets a fact-check from Time magazine
Unique among ‘Person of the Year’ designees, Donald Trump gets a fact-check from Time magazine

Time magazine gave Donald Trump something it has never done for a Person of the Year designee: a lengthy fact-check of claims he made in an accompanying interview. The fact-check [...]

NY police force strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DOJ says
NY police force strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DOJ says

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) — A suburban New York police department routinely violated residents’ civil rights, including making illegal arrests and using unnecessary strip and cavity searches, according to a [...]

Argentina hits out at Venezuela over security officer’s detention

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s government said on Friday it strongly rejected what it called the arbitrary and unjustified detention of a non-commissioned officer of the country’s Gendarmeria, a national [...]

Colombia arrests alleged ‘invisible’ cocaine trafficker wanted in the UK
Colombia arrests alleged ‘invisible’ cocaine trafficker wanted in the UK

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia arrested a suspected British drug trafficker they described as “invisible” due to his low-key lifestyle that allowed him to remain anonymous while operating as a [...]

Exclusive-In search for U.S. journalist Austin Tice, a clue from 11 years ago
Exclusive-In search for U.S. journalist Austin Tice, a clue from 11 years ago

By Erin Banco and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the early days of 2013, an American man, dressed in ragged clothing, dodged between houses in the streets of Damascus’ [...]

Syrian clerics in former Assad stronghold call for national unity, democracy
Syrian clerics in former Assad stronghold call for national unity, democracy

By Bulent Usta and Tuvan Gumrukcu LATAKIA, Syria (Reuters) – Thousands gathered in northwestern Syria on Friday for weekly prayers and a rally where clerics in the port city of [...]

US Supreme Court will hear clash over religious exemptions from Wisconsin tax
US Supreme Court will hear clash over religious exemptions from Wisconsin tax

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by an arm of a Catholic diocese in Wisconsin for a religious exemption from [...]

SpaceX wants to make Starbase a new Texas city. Here’s how it could happen
SpaceX wants to make Starbase a new Texas city. Here’s how it could happen

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — In the decade since SpaceX arrived on the Texas coast, billionaire Elon Musk’s company has created thousands of jobs near the Mexico border, launched rockets and [...]

Bank of America, Goldman to donate undecided amounts to Trump’s inaugural committee
Bank of America, Goldman to donate undecided amounts to Trump’s inaugural committee

(Reuters) -Bank of America, the second-largest U.S. lender, and investment bank Goldman Sachs plan to contribute to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committees, but have yet to decide on the amount, [...]

FACT FOCUS: Inspector general’s Jan. 6 report misrepresented as proof of FBI setup
FACT FOCUS: Inspector general’s Jan. 6 report misrepresented as proof of FBI setup

Social media users are misrepresenting a report released Thursday by the Justice Department inspector general’s office, falsely claiming that it’s proof the FBI orchestrated the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, [...]

Trump’s lawyers rebuff DA’s idea for upholding his hush money conviction, calling it ‘absurd’
Trump’s lawyers rebuff DA’s idea for upholding his hush money conviction, calling it ‘absurd’

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers urged a judge again Friday to throw out his hush money conviction, balking at the prosecution’s suggestion of preserving the verdict by [...]

Veteran Daniel Penny, acquitted in NYC subway chokehold, will join Trump’s suite at football game
Veteran Daniel Penny, acquitted in NYC subway chokehold, will join Trump’s suite at football game

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Daniel Penny, a military veteran who subdued an agitated New York subway rider and was acquitted of homicide this week, has been invited by Vice [...]

Saudi Arabia banned film for 35 years. The Red Sea festival is just one sign of the industry’s rise
Saudi Arabia banned film for 35 years. The Red Sea festival is just one sign of the industry’s rise

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — “My Driver and I” was supposed to be made in 2016, but was scuttled amid Saudi Arabia’s decades-long cinema ban. Eight years later, the landscape [...]

Unique among ‘Person of the Year’ designees, Donald Trump gets a fact-check from Time magazine
Unique among ‘Person of the Year’ designees, Donald Trump gets a fact-check from Time magazine

Time magazine gave Donald Trump something it has never done for a Person of the Year designee: a lengthy fact-check of claims he made in an accompanying interview. The fact-check [...]

US EPA says it has not made decision on California 2035 vehicle waiver
US EPA says it has not made decision on California 2035 vehicle waiver

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday it has not made a decision yet on whether to approve California’s landmark plan to end [...]

Exclusive-Yellen won’t rule out sanctions on Chinese banks, curbs on ‘dark fleet’ oil tankers
Exclusive-Yellen won’t rule out sanctions on Chinese banks, curbs on ‘dark fleet’ oil tankers

By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Reuters on Friday that the U.S. is looking at further sanctions on “dark fleet” tankers [...]

Judge clears way for Musk appeal to try to restore $56 billion Tesla pay
Judge clears way for Musk appeal to try to restore $56 billion Tesla pay

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – A Delaware judge cleared the way on Friday for Elon Musk and Tesla to begin legal appeals to try to reinstate the chief executive’s record-breaking $56 [...]

Texas’ abortion pill lawsuit against New York doctor marks new challenge to interstate telemedicine
Texas’ abortion pill lawsuit against New York doctor marks new challenge to interstate telemedicine

Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield laws that Democrat-controlled [...]

How to write a holiday rom-com for TV, according to the experts
How to write a holiday rom-com for TV, according to the experts

Have you ever watched a holiday rom-com on Hallmark Channel or Lifetime — or any of the other many networks and streamers that now air them — and thought, “I [...]

RELIGION HEADLINES

(SRN NEWS) – The Montana Supreme Court is continuing to block a law that bans sex-change operations on children while a court challenge plays out.  In a unanimous ruling, the [...]

‘Crown of Thorns’ returns to Notre Dame Cathedral for public veneration
‘Crown of Thorns’ returns to Notre Dame Cathedral for public veneration

PARIS (AP) — An ancient relic that many Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s “Crown of Thorns” returned Friday to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, five years after it was saved [...]

Millions mark Mexico’s Virgin of Guadalupe Day but calls for a truce in drug violence go unheeded
Millions mark Mexico’s Virgin of Guadalupe Day but calls for a truce in drug violence go unheeded

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Millions of faithful gathered to mark Mexico’s Virgin of Guadalupe Day, honoring the country’s patron saint. But calls by the Roman Catholic Church for a truce [...]

Report: Heat agree to trade Thomas Bryant to Pacers
Report: Heat agree to trade Thomas Bryant to Pacers

The Indiana Pacers reached an agreement to acquire center Thomas Bryant from the Miami Heat, ESPN reported Friday. Bryant becomes trade-eligible this Sunday, and the Heat will ship him to [...]

Trae Young, Hawks hoping to win big in Vegas at the NBA Cup semifinals
Trae Young, Hawks hoping to win big in Vegas at the NBA Cup semifinals

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Trae Young might be the NBA’s biggest enigma. Young’s fans can point to numbers and say he’s an elite player. His detractors can point to numbers [...]

Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss reveals cancer diagnosis, 6-hour surgery
Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss reveals cancer diagnosis, 6-hour surgery

Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Randy Moss said Friday he is being treated for cancer and is recovering from major surgery. In an appearance on Instagram Live, Moss, [...]

Does the NBA Cup need star power or does Las Vegas sell itself?
Does the NBA Cup need star power or does Las Vegas sell itself?

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The league caught a major break last season when the Lakers made the inaugural NBA In-Season Tournament semifinals and then won the title. Las Vegas is [...]

Taylor Swift makes surprise visit to Kansas City children’s hospital
Taylor Swift makes surprise visit to Kansas City children’s hospital

Taylor Swift has made a surprise stop at a Kansas City children’s hospital, shocking parents and patients alike as she laughed with them, posed for photos and exchanged gifts. All [...]

US FDA approves Checkpoint’s skin cancer drug
US FDA approves Checkpoint’s skin cancer drug

(Reuters) -The U.S Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it has approved Checkpoint Therapeutics’ drug for treatment of a type of cancer on the outer layer of the skin. [...]

US FDA approves Neurocrine Biosciences’ genetic disorder drug
US FDA approves Neurocrine Biosciences’ genetic disorder drug

(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Neurocrine Biosciences’ drug to treat a type of genetic disorder, the health regulator’s website showed on Friday. The drug, branded as [...]

Trump wants to turn the clock on daylight saving time
Trump wants to turn the clock on daylight saving time

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump wants to turn the lights out on daylight saving time. In a post on his social media site Friday, Trump said his party [...]

US FDA lifts partial clinical hold on BioNTech cancer drug study
US FDA lifts partial clinical hold on BioNTech cancer drug study

(Reuters) -BioNTech SE said on Friday it has been informed by its partner OncoC4 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has lifted the partial clinical hold on a late-stage [...]

J&J accuses divisions of Cigna of helping drain its drug copay funds, WSJ reports
J&J accuses divisions of Cigna of helping drain its drug copay funds, WSJ reports

(Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson has sued divisions of Cigna, accusing the health insurer of working with a drug-benefit middleman to drain J&J’s financial-assistance funds earmarked for patients taking some [...]

US court rejects Tiktok request to temporarily halt pending US ban
US court rejects Tiktok request to temporarily halt pending US ban

By David Shepardson and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected an emergency bid by TikTok to temporarily block a law that would require its Chinese [...]

Apple CEO Tim Cook to meet with Trump on Friday
Apple CEO Tim Cook to meet with Trump on Friday

By Nandita Bose and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Apple CEO Tim Cook will meet Donald Trump on Friday night at the U.S. president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, a source familiar [...]

Drones, planes or UFOs? Americans abuzz over mysterious New Jersey sightings
Drones, planes or UFOs? Americans abuzz over mysterious New Jersey sightings

CHATHAM, N.J. (AP) — That buzzing coming out of New Jersey? It’s unclear if it’s drones or something else, but for sure the nighttime sightings are producing tons of talk, [...]

OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk bid to block for-profit conversion
OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk bid to block for-profit conversion

By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – OpenAI asked a federal judge in California on Friday to reject a request by billionaire Elon Musk to halt the ChatGPT maker’s conversion to a [...]

OpenAI’s legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI ‘dictatorship’
OpenAI’s legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI ‘dictatorship’

A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and prevent an artificial intelligence “dictatorship” is now heading to a federal judge as [...]